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You can imagine my delight when I spotted this bloke in my local Waterstones bookstore."I'm a tester, can I get a photo of your t-shirt? ...
Here's my TestBash 2025 intro:I’m coming from: Teddington, Greater LondonMy role is: Community Lead at Ministry of TestingI’d love to mee...
Doctor, Doctor, I can’t stop creating bug reports with clickbait titles. Oh, I see. What are the symptoms?Well, there are eight symptoms,...
"I love when I see my junior testers ask for help, and the senior goes, I actually don't know either. Let's go find out together." shares...
I was leading a team of ten QA's. Most were high performers, and we had a wonderful team vibe. Super proud as this was the first team I h...
We're building towards becoming more of a platform, a quality destination.As part of this, we're evolving our "like" buttons, which now g...
13/09/24. Brighton Beach. The end of a jam-packed day two of TestBash 2024 in Brighton. We head to OhSo Social for lots of chit-chat. Man...
Alessandra makes a powerful point. And it makes me wonder what bugs the quality engineers of the next five years will be faced with. We'v...
Can you find Bug, Cosmo the Space Duck and Space Seagull?
It's the 2nd of June 2025 and there are 178 terms and 283 definitions in MoT's software testing glossary. We check how many items are in ...
🚀 VERY exciting announcement!🚀 Speakers and the format for London MoT 4.0 (The BIG Summer Sprint) with Monzo Bank have been released!🔥👀 D...
Simon Tomes
Community Lead at MoTaverse
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Hello, I'm Simon. Since 2003 I've had various roles in testing, tech leadership and coaching. I believe in the power of collaboration, creativity and community. 🎓 MoT-STEC qualified. I get real joy working with and supporting our wonderful MoTaverse community.
“Thanks for making me feel so confident about myself.” | “I'm so grateful for all you do in the MoTaverse community, I learn so much as a result!” | “A simple chat with Simon in person absolutely changed everything.” | “Simon is one of the best people that I've ever met to have conversations with. He's so grounded in his way of thinking and articulates his thoughts so well and his feelings and his knowledge about community and everything.”
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